Time discovers truth.
SENECA THE YOUNGERWhat narrow innocence it is for one to be good only according to the law.
More Seneca the Younger Quotes
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Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.
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The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
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The world itself is too small for the covetous.
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Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it.
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The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
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No untroubled day has ever dawned for me.
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He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
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It’s the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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All art is but imitation of nature.
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As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit
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No choice maxims – we Stoics don’t practice that kind of window dressing.
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Genius has never been accepted without a measure of condonement.
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The intellect must not be kept at consistent tension, but diverted by pastimes…. The mind must have relaxation, and will rise stronger and keener after recreation.
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Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by rulers as useful.
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